In the 1970s, as The Residents worked on their Eskimo masterpiece, their mentor The Mysterious N. Senada sent them a collection of handwritten Inuit folk tales, suggesting they incorporate them into the album. But the group shelved them, having gathered more than enough stuff themselves by that point, leaving them to gather dust.

 

Almost 50 years later, The Residents have revived those folk tales as part of their Eskimo live performance, blending them with familiar elements of the original Eskimo album and new music. This is a studio recording of those new songs, alongside read-along stories, as written down by Senada almost half a century ago.

 

This is not a new side of Eskimo, but a modern interpretation of material which might, in another universe, have found its way onto the original.

 

10" vinyl.